“DO AS WE SAY …

… NOT AS WE DO,” is the article in our local paper called.

That certainly reminds readers of the Bible of what the Lord Jesus Christ said the the crowds and his disciples about the teachers of the law and the Pharisees in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 23 at the beginning. He said to them, “… do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what the preach.”

Long ago I heard the saying that those who expect obedience from others, must first learn to be obedient themselves. It is so easy for all of us to tell others what to do and and not doing it ourselves.

In his letter to the Romans in Chapter two from verse 17 the Apostle Paul asks a number of questions. Here are some of them:

“You who preach against stealing, do you steal?”

” You who say people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery?”

“You who brag about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?”

In Matthew 7:14-27 the Lord Jesus Christ teaches about the Wise builder and the Foolish builder. The wise man hears and puts into practice what he hears, the foolish man hears and does not put into practice what he hears.

What are we, foolish or wise?

Is there anything we have heard or read or taught and have not practiced yet?